White Utopias enters many live fields in the study of religion, including spirituality, globalism, capitalism, and race—especially the theorization of whiteness—with brilliant analytical acumen."—Andrea R. Jain, author of Peace Love ...
As such, Multicultural Geographies is derived from the joint efforts of selected scholars to bring together diverse perspectives and approaches in documenting the experiences of American minorities and the issues that affect them.
Erstmals in deutscher Sprache wird hier William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), der machtvolle Propagandist einer isolationistischen Auaenpolitik und erste Auaenminister Woodrow Wilsons, vorgestellt.
In this wide ranging collection of essays, eleven literary scholars and creative writers examine authorship and authority in relation to the production and reception of cultural texts.
Only the last chapter is original to this text. The titles and dates of Mauss' lectures are appended. The author acknowledges the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Oxford. c. Book News Inc.
Figuring Age engages the virtually invisible subject of older women in western culture. Like other markers of social difference, age is given meaning by a culture.
This crucial book will transform the way anthropologists think about everyday ethics from the moment it appears."—Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge "In this extraordinary book about ...
Domicide tells how and why the powerful destroy homes that happen to be in the way of corporate, political, and bureaucratic projects. Too frequently, this destruction is justified as being in the public interest.
Second, this collection of cognitive programs evolved in the Pleistocene to solve the adaptive problems regularly faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors--problems such as mate selection, language acquisition, cooperation, and sexual ...